S6E72: Episode 72: Rachel Barnard - Creative Justice
Rachel Barnard's project, “Young New Yorkers”, is a powerful example of creativity as a force for good.
It’s a diversion program for young people who have been arrested in NYC that uses art and creativity as an alternative to the criminal legal system.
An Australian-born architect, Rachel won a fellowship in 2011 from Columbia University's architecture school for her proposal for "Young New Yorkers", a public art platform for teens who had been arrested as adults. Her project went on to become a radical new alternative to jail for teenagers who had been arrested and prosecuted classified as…
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